It has just published the book Historia de la cartografía urbana en España: Modelos y realizaciones. It takes every contribution made in the coloquium Modelos de la cartografia urbana española: un análisis histórico that took place in Barcelona in February, 2017 and that was organized by the GEHC and the Museo de Historia de Barcelona. In this work […]
Enrique d’Almonte (1858 – 1917) was a very famous cartographer and civil geographer. He made some of the best maps of Spanish colonies thanks to its ability for mesure and cartographic draw in bad situations and with few material, and its qualities as explorer, someone interested in aspects like linguistic, geology, botanic, ectnography, etc.His work […]
Bárbara Polo Martín, GEHC member, has just presented her new book Juan Ponce de León through the sources in the journey about editorial novelties that took place at the Geography and History Faculty of Barcelona University. In this book about the famous explorer of 16th century, first governor of Puerto Rico and discoverer of Florida, the author deepens […]
The Institut Cartogràfic i Geològic de Catalunya (ICGC) has published the Recueil des Plans du Roussillon, de Catalogne, des Chasteaux, Villages, Eglises, Chapelles & Maisons, a compendium of city maps, towns and fortifications made up by the French Army during the War of succession, collected by Jacques Pennier in 1719 under the form of atlas. The […]
Imago Mundi, The International Journal for the History of Cartography, is one of the most important journals in the domain of History of Cartography. Two numbers are published by year and the journal has an impact index of 0,2. Dra. Catherine Delano Smith is the editor at this moment. The last number publish is Number 1, […]
Two web sources very recomendable to be updated about the main editorial novelties directed to people interested in history of cartography, between two: The blog The Map Room maintains a list of books, basically in English, organised by months of 2017 in this web, the most part of them with a comment of the author of the blog, […]